That means you'll be able to hook up one drive to another and then run a cord from the primary drive to your PC or notebook. Essentially, your PC or notebook will see two drives.
Restoring your backed up data is a subject that's too often overlooked. Many backup programs store files in a proprietary format.
This means that when you use one of these programs to back up your files, you can't simply turn to a backed up copy and retrieve the data.
You must first have the program that backed up the files installed. Sometimes, of course, that's inconvenient, and you want your backed up data in a format that you can read at once without the program you used to back up the files.
So you'll need to decide up front whether you wish to store your data in the proprietary format offered by traditional backup programs such as those provided with many external hard drives today.
If not, look to backup programs that merely automate the process of copying large numbers of files and folders to another drive without compressing those files or storing them in a special format.
You can find a number of such programs at NoNog's Disk Backup Tools Freeware page (http://www.nonags.com/nonags/diskbk.html).
Programs like Ezbackitup and Copier run are small and simple, run on every version of Windows, and best of all are completely free.
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